» Lieutenant Samuel Crawford was a member of the first Connty Committee, appointed in May, 1775, (Page 83, ante ;) and the only representative of the Manor of Scarsdale, in the County Committee, 1776-'7.

M The authority for this statemont is a Letter from Jonathan G. Tompkins and Nicolm Fisher to the Provincial Congress, " White Plaims, Febru- "ery 14th, 1776"-- (Historical Manuscripts, etc.: MUitary Returns, xxvii., 84.)

From the same manuscript, the following list of the names of the nineteen who thus organized themselves into a Company of Minute-men, has been carefnlly copied, without changing the spelling of the names : " Benjamin Lyon, Joseph Todd,

" Ollivor Killick, John Drake,

"John Beeks, Ezekiel Dnten,

" Stephen Shelley, James Parrel,

"Philip Huestin, Andrew Fach,

"MicahTownsend, Esq., James Brundage,

" J ttmes Verryan, Gilbert Horton,

" Samuel Crawford, David Johnston,

" Isaac Oakley, Robert Graham.

" William Tompson."

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

expected from a community in which the revolutionary party had scarcely "' a Corporal's Guard," except of those who were office-holders or office-seekers? -- but as soon as two Companies had been organized, the County Committee "took the liberty, with all •' submission, to recommend Samuel Drake, to be " Colonel ; * Lewis Graham, to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; 2 " Abraham Storm, to be First Major ; " Samuel Lyon, " of Northcastle, to be Second Major; Elijah Miller, to " be Adjutant ; * and Josiah Mills, to be Quarter-mas- " ter 5 ;" and thus the re-organization of the Militia of Westchester-county and the organization of her fighting population were completed.